EVAWUD is a global campaign held during the 16 Days of Activism (25 Nov–10 Dec), demanding an end to violence against women and gender diverse people who use drugs through human rights–based, gender-responsive, and harm reduction–oriented drug policies.
WHRIN's global campaign around the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women calls groups worldwide to join the 16 Days of Action with activities highlighting violence against women and gender diverse people who use drugs.
Civil society exposes punitive harms and rights violations, while urging a shift towards health, harm reduction, decriminalisation, justice reform, and sustainable livelihoods.
Against criminalisation, invisibility and systemic violence, these initiatives seek to expand gender-responsive harm reduction and policy reform, based on lived experience.
Bewley-Taylor et al. find the GDPI useful for comparing international drug policy, and suggest improvements to better handle uncertainty and diverse data.
On 2025 World Drug Day and Support. Don’t Punish Global Day of Action, 70 organizations call upon the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to condemn the use of the death penalty from drug related offences. In this joint statement, the signatories demand that human rights safeguards are implemented to uphold international law and standards.
Cuts in foreign aid and shrinking space for civil society are jeopardising decades of progress in harm reduction, gender equality, and sexual and reproductive health rights.
WHRIN catalogues gender-responsive harm reduction services around the world, highlighting a stark disparity between need and availability driven by criminalisation and stigma.
This event launches a publication identifying good practices in relation to the needs of women and gender diverse people, and access to responsive harm reduction services.
